That said, it reads like the author played the Xbox game and wrote play-by-play what happened, where he goes, what he shoots, etc. This book was a novelization of the first Halo game (Combat Evolved). If you play the video game, it's fine, because you're playing the video game, not reading a page of words of what someone did in the vide This book was such a let down and unworthy of the sequel to "The Fall of Reach". You're not reading a story, just a re-telling of what happens in the video game. This book was such a let down and unworthy of the sequel to "The Fall of Reach". This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Halo's darkest mystery-and unleash its greatest source of power.
Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. With the cruiser's artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.Īs the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battle's only human survivors: Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.
As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the ca The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind's very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait. The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind's very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo.